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Democrats, Texas and redistricting

Rainbow PUSH Coalition hosts Texas Democrats protesting Republican redistricting effort

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition is standing with Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to halt a redistricting vote.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 1d

Texas Democrats know they may lose redistricting protest, but hope to spark a national fight

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue states to retaliate.

CNN · 1d

Democrats delay Texas redistricting again, escalating a standoff with GOP leaders

Texas’ redistricting standoff rose to a new level Friday as Democrats once again denied a quorum to allow the House to consider the GOP-led plan and Republicans responded by threatening more punitive action.

Democrats, Beto O'Rourke and Texas

Austin American-Statesman · 45m

Judge blocks Beto O'Rourke's group from aiding Democrats who fled Texas

Powered by People filed a responding suit against Paxton, claiming the attorney general's investigation violated the group's right to free speech.

HuffPost · 1d

Paxton Sues Beto O'Rourke, Democratic Lawmakers In Escalation Over Texas Legislature Walkout

The Texas House of Representatives has again failed to meet a quorum as Democrats continue their walkout to block a vote on congressional voting maps sought by President Donald Trump.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 1d

Paxton launches investigation into Beto O’Rourke’s political group for funding Democrats who left state

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into whether Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, and the George Soros-backed Texas Majority PAC are breaking laws by funding Texas Democrats’ out-of-state travel attempting to stop the passage of a new Republican-favored congressional map.

Texas, FBI and Democrats

MSNBC · 32m

Texas Congressman compares Republicans' threats towards TX Democrats to someone 'pickpocketing'

Texas Democratic Congressman Vincente Gonzalez and Texas State Representative Venton Jones join MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss Texas redistricting as well as Texas Democrats fleeing the state breaking quorum,

CNN on MSN · 1d

Texas Democrat responds to FBI threat

CNN’s Victor Blackwell speaks with Texas Democratic State Rep. Vince Perez, who has left Texas for Illinois, about state House Speaker Dustin Burrows signing civil arrest warrants for the absent Democrats.

The Atlantic on MSN · 11h

The Texas GOP’s Disturbing Request for the FBI

Will the FBI help the Republican Party force through a partisan redistricting plan in Texas, or not? The answer to that question is of vital importance to sustaining American democracy. Republican state legislative leaders want to redraw Texas’s congressional districts to give their party as many as five more seats in next year’s midterm elections.

How Texas Democrats’ walkout has launched a fight across the US over political maps

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the ...

2hon MSN

Here are the top House Democrats at risk from GOP redistricting

House Democrats in red states across the country are at risk as the redistricting arms race heats up. Texas Republicans’ ...

12h

California launches redistricting fight to ‘nullify’ Texas GOP plan, with Dems poised to gain 5 seats

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the Golden State will move forward with a special election in early ...

11hon MSN

Texas AG says he's filed suit to remove 13 absent state Democrats from office in redistricting fight

Texas Democrats geared up for another day of defiance against Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP as they try to move forward ...

7hon MSN

Paxton and Cornyn, facing off for Senate, use their official powers in Texas redistricting fight

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the man he is vying to unseat in next year’s Republican primary, US Sen. John Cornyn, ...

2don MSN

Texas Democrats plea for donations to extend their walkout and block Trump’s redistricting plan

Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for ...

13h

Redistricting fight: Top takeaways as Maryland jumps in the fray with Trump, Texas

Maryland politicians are weighing in on the national debate over mid-decade redistricting, as states propose plans to give ...

Long Beach Post2h

Texas Democrats embrace Newsom’s redistricting rebuttal as California draws new map

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Texas Democrats jointly promoted California’s plan to redraw congressional lines and offset a ...

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